Contact Precautions: You should know them forwards and backwards

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One thing you are going to want to have down pat, is your contact precautions! Not only the PPE you should have on for each type of disease, but also what order to PPE off, what the patient should have on when being transported to another unit, what those transporting the patient should have on, the order in which you remove each piece of equipment, how often to perform hand hygeine and which diseases require which type of precaution.

Standard Precautions: These are the safety measures that should be taken with all patients.

Transporting patient:
1. Patient must wear a surgical or procedure mask and a clean gown
2. Patient must wash hands
3. For direct contact with pt, nurse or care provider should wear a gown and gloves.
4. Notify receiving area

david, i'm a bit concern about this statement - if i remove my glove first then gown as you wrote, my hands will get in contact with the outer part of my gown and i would actually be contaminated... am i the only one seeing things this way???

david, i'm a bit concern about this statement - if i remove my glove first then gown as you wrote, my hands will get in contact with the outer part of my gown and i would actually be contaminated... am i the only one seeing things this way???

the reason for the gloves being removed first is because the ties of the gown are not contaminated...just the same as when you remove a mask from your face. you want to make sure you have removed your gloves prior to to that...remember you are touching the ties, not the actual gown itself.

The reason for the gloves being removed first is because the ties of the gown are not contaminated...just the same as when you remove a mask from your face. You want to make sure you have removed your gloves prior to to that...REMEMBER you are touching the ties, not the actual gown itself.

soon2bRN516 is right. When removing the gown you remove your gloves first like I mentioned and discard them in the trash can. Next, you would pull your hands back through the sleeve holes being careful not to touch the outer contaminated portion of the gown. You can now either grab the ties or any part of the interior of the gown and roll it over itself into a ball and discard of it in the appropriate trash can, depending on what it came into contact with. Good question though, thank you for asking.

My rationale for removing the gloves first is that you want to remove the most soiled equipment which in my opinion is the gloves since it is the hands that touch many different contaminated subjects,then loosen up the ties on the back of your gown and then then remove the gown,wash your hands (remeber here you going close to oral route;so you want to have your hands clean before they come into close contact with your hands...